Legal Editor Practice Area Content

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Legal Editor, Practice Area Content

The candidate will maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of the manuscript. Will engage in author recruitment for both existing and new products in any media, including, but not limited to, identifying author prospects, contacting them, negotiating an agreement for their services, and drafting the author agreement. Provide authors with legal areas of focus, and emerging issues, as needed. Partner with authors to assure the timely delivery of manuscripts in the appropriate format. Encourage authors to use tools more efficiently to submit manuscripts. Arrange for author payment. Develop strong author relationships that can potentially benefit other departments at LN including marketing, and product strategy and development. Partner with Product Managers and Legal Department to dissolve unsuccessful author relationships. Collaborate with the author and, as appropriate, Product Managers to develop production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs. Assure the receipt of the complete manuscript, supporting documentation, and release highlights for all publications. Prepare relevant internal documentation, together with supporting hard copy, files, and illustrations, for timely delivery, with the edited manuscript, to Indexing, Operations and the offshore team as appropriate. Establish and manage budgets for author and other outside editorial payments for manuscript preparation. Comply with the author's manuscript update directions. Copy editing and review for substantive accuracy, as appropriate, assigned publications with consideration for content functionality in all media. Responsible for managing outsourcing projects, including drafting instructions and providing feedback to vendors/contractors/offshore team. Report status as needed to Editorial Directors, Content Operations SMEs, and Operations directors in a consistent and effective format. Perform quality reviews of products in all media. Support continuous improvement by driving operational excellence and seeking to enhance customer value via ongoing educational training. Implement operational efficiencies to support best practices and adherence to milestone publication dates. Assess the critical needs of publications, the best production approach for each release cycle, and determine the use of internal and external resources. Define appropriate production processes for new products as assigned. Participate in research and development of new technologies and procedures. Leverage existing knowledge of tools and processes by cross-training and sharing information with team members. Help customers with product-specific inquiries for assigned products. Support marketing and sales activities by collaborating with colleagues to create content for sales campaigns and training, including the creation of value statements and other information as requested. Track and monitor relevant legislation, case law, news, and developments as needed to maintain awareness of current topics for inclusion in assigned publications. As determined by the Editorial Director, contribute to initiatives as needed, including competitive analysis, content expansion/new product development, Practical Guidance, CLE, sales training, tool testing, or other new initiatives that may arise.

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job requisition id R50309

Company info

LexisNexis
170 Huyshope Ave
Hartford
Connecticut
United States 06106
Website : http://www.lexisnexis.com